Series Editors’ Foreword Introduction: Freirian Approaches to Teaching Children’s Literature: Joy, Voice, Agency, Responsiveness and Love 1. Becoming Powerful Readers of the Word and the World: Multicultural Readings of Children’s and YA Literature 2. Multicultural Literature and the Promotion of Social Awareness in ELA Classrooms 3. Linking the Word to the World: Connecting Multicultural Children’s Literature to the Lives of 21st Century Youth 4. Student Voice and Agency in the Polyvocal Literature Classroom 5. Critical Family Engagement in Reading Multicultural Literature 6. Conclusion: The Future of Children’s Literature is Already Here References Index

The work of Paulo Freire is grounded in an epistemology of Love. This book is a testament to that grounding and serves as a book accessible to all – students, parents, teachers, and scholars – an opportunity to weave the ideas of Freire into the fabric of K-12 schooling, and more so into society for popular readership.

This series of short-format books provide readers a diverse range of Paulo Freire's work and Freireans' reinventions towards social justice both inside and outside education, without readers needing any prior knowledge of his scholarship. The books offer new perspectives on the work of Freire's teaching, ideas, methods, and philosophies. Each book will introduce Freire’s work so it is easily understood by a wider audience without overly simplifying the depth of his scholarship. Advisory Board Ali Abdi (University of British Columbia, Canada) Marina Aparicio Barberán (Paulo Freire Institute Spain, Spain) Pep Aparicio Guadas (Paulo Freire Institute Spain, Spain) Michael Apple (Beijing Normal University, China) Rima Apple (Beijing Normal University, China) Ângela Antunes (Paulo Freire Institute São Paulo, Brazil) N'Dri T. Assié-Lumumba (Cornell University, USA) Oscar Azmitia Barranco (Paulo Freire Institute Columbia, Columbia) Lesley Bartlett (University of Wisconsin, USA) Kumari Beck (Simon Fraser University, Canada) Tina Besley (Beijing Normal University, China) ChenWei Chang (National Taipei Normal University, Taiwan) Luiza Cortesão (Paulo Freire Institute Portugal, Portugal) Regina Cortina (Columbia University, USA) José Cossa (Penn State University, USA) Sonia Couto (Centro de Referência Paulo Freire, Brazil) Eve Coxen (University of Auckland, New Zealand) Pedro Demo (Sociologia da UnB, Brazil) Jason Dorio (UCLA Paulo Freire Institute, USA) Anantha Duraiappah Mahatma (UNESCO, India) Liang Du (Beijing Normal University, China) Ernest Morrell (University of Notre Dame, USA) Gerald Faschingeder (Paulo Freire Institute Austria, Austria) Aslam Fataar (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) Moacir Gadotti (Paulo Freire Institute, Brazil) Chitra Golestani-Maghzi (Wilmette Institute, USA( Sandy Grande (Connecticut College, USA) Sondra Hale (UCLA, USA) Anne Harley (Paulo Freire Institute South Africa, South Africa) John Holst (Penn State University, USA) Afzal Hossain (Indian Paulo Freire Institute, India) Zhicheng Huang (East China Normal University, China) Liz Jackson (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Petar Jandric (Zagreb University of Applied Sciences, Croatia) Tony Jenkins (International Institute on Peace Education) Aly Juma (UCLA Paulo Freire Institute, USA) Hyung Ryeol Kim (Seoul National University, South Korea) Sophie Kotanyi (Paulo Freire Intitute Berlin, Germany) Peter Lownds (UCLA Paulo Freire Institute, USA) Sheila Macrine (University of Massachusetts, USA) Peter Mayo (University of Malta, Malta) Lauren Misiaszek (Beijing Normal University, China) Raymond Morrow (University of Alberta, Canada) Maria del Pilar O'Cadiz (UCLA Paulo Freire Institute, USA) Pedro Noguera (University of Southern California, USA) Irène Pereira (Paulo Freire Institute France, France) Michael A. Peters (Beijing Normal University, China) Adriana Puiggrós (Secretary of Education, Argentina) Jevdet Rexhepi (Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University, Saudi Arabia) Saajidha Sader (University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) Kabini Sanga (Victoria University, New Zealand) Ilse Schimpf-Herken (Paulo Freire Institute, Argentina) Daniel Schugurensky (Arizona State University, USA) Lynette Shultz (University of Alberta, Canada) Graham Smith (Massey University, New Zealand) Ana Steinbach Torres (Federal University of Paraíba, Brazil) Danilo Streck (University of the Sinos Valley, Brazil) Rebecca Tarlau (Penn State University, USA) Massimiliano Tarozzi (University of Bologna, Italy) António Teodoro (Lusophone University, Portugal) Spyros Themelis (University of East Anglia, UK) Robert Tierney (University of British Columbia, Canada) Richard van Heertum (New York Film Academy, USA) Yusef Waghid (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) Sung-Sang Yoo (Seoul National University, South Korea)